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    "id": 1030574,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1030574/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1826,
        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
        "slug": "irungu-kangata"
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    "content": "In Kenya, you have a situation where one single player dictates how much you are going to pay for data bundles, for calls and Short Message Service (SMS) because it controls almost 90 per cent of the market. In such a kind of situation, I do not foresee any other entity growing. We are not going to create more jobs and innovation in that industry because of the dominance of one entity. There is what we call termination charges which an entity or company in telecommunication industry pays to the other companies for termination of its calls. Because of the dominance, these small telecommunication companies like Telkom and Airtel owe Safaricom billions of shillings. The effect is that the companies will forever owe billions of shillings to Safaricom and will never grow. This is not a good economic situation."
}